Overweight - Bacol Serlui

Hebrew book Edition
By Bacol Serlui

Written in the first person, Bacol Serlui’s incisive and intelligent essays unfold from the perspective of a religious, feminist Israeli poet. They weave together her private life story into a vivid, contemporary map of the soul. With courage, honesty, and subtlety, Serlui offers a deeply personal autobiography that is, inevitably, political—examining the world around her in all its dimensions through her own singular body and voice.

Through these dual lenses, she navigates rich and varied intellectual and cultural landscapes, engaging in dialogue with a wide range of thinkers and writers—from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to Virginia Woolf, from Naomi Wolf to Likutei Moharan.

Serlui offers a sharp and original perspective on excess weight and the exhausting, never-ending struggle it entails; on family purity laws and the prohibition of touch; on love of Torah and the exclusion of women; on menstruation and the female body; on body and war, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and self-definition. Above all, she writes about the many women she is: a mother, a wife, a writer, and a poet.

Hebrew language • 208 pages

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